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What happens when a race car hits Styrofoam? Thomas 'Moose' Praytor finds out

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Justin Boston and his Venturini Motorsports team celebrate in Victory Lane after he scored his first ARCA Racing Series victory by winning the Menards 200 at Toledo Speedway in Toledo, Ohio, on Sunday, March 18, 2014. (Courtesy of ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards)

The fifth ARCA Racing Series event of the season didn't go as planned for the two Coastal Alabama drivers in the Menards 200 at Toledo Speedway on Sunday. Grant Enfinger of Fairhope had a flat tire five laps from the checkered flag, and Thomas "Moose" Praytor of Mobile went into a spin and became a YouTube highlight by destroying the Styrofoam barrier in Turn 3 at the half-mile track.

"Right after the halfway point, we were coming off Turn 2 and something broke," Praytor said, "and we backed into the wall. It was a pretty hard hit. I'm OK, but the car's pretty bad. We should be able to fix it, I guess."

Praytor wound up with a 21st-place finish.

Justin Boston scored his first ARCA victory in the race, taking the lead from Enfinger with 20 laps to go. Enfinger, who has won three ARCA races this season, led 67 laps in the race, but the late flat relegated him to a 12th-place finish.

Enfinger was one of four drivers who had flat tires late in the race, an unusual one for Toledo because it had only four caution periods. One of the flat-tire victims was 10-time ARCA champion Frank Kimmel, whose 14th-place finish was his first outside the top 10 in 37 races.

"We usually don't have such long runs like that," Kimmel said. "We were just abusing those tires today."

Justin Allison, who, like Enfinger, drives for Team BCR Racing, had a career-best finish of seventh.

Mason Mitchell finished second for his 14th top-10 finish in a row. He cut Enfinger's season-points lead to 25. Praytor is ninth in the season standings.